Dr. Abhirama Chandra Gabbita, Consultant - Neurosurgeon

Qualifications:

M.Ch (Neurosurgery)

DNB neurosurgery

PDF(Neuroncology & Skullbase)

Professional Synopsis:

Dr.Abhirama Chandra Gabbita managed wards with over 50 inpatients throughout the year in the Neurosurgical department with both day and night calls and running of outpatient clinics. He also assisted in neurosurgery theatre for about 700 cases of trauma, vascular, Neuro oncology, Neuro endoscopy, pediatric neurosurgery, spine, functional neurosurgery, and well versed with intra operative neuro monitoring, neuro navigation, Digital subtraction angiography.

Done about 200 cases of acute, chronic SDH, extradural hematomas, contusions, decompression for infarcts, meningiomas, gliomas, EDAMS, cervical discectomy and fusion, lumbar discectomy, lumbar decompression, pedicle screw placement in thoracic and lumbar spine, cranioplasty individually under supervision.

Dr.Abhiram single handely managed 25 bedded neuro ICU, well versed with emergency intubation, ventilation, EVD placement, ICP monitoring, performed about 50 cases of open and percutaneous tracheostomy, Decanulation

Experiences:

• January 2023- January 2022, Post doctoral fellow- neuro oncology and skullbase- SGPGIMS, Lucknow.
• January 2021- January 2022, Consultant Neurosurgeon at AIG Hospitals, Gachibowli, Hyderabad.
• December 2019-November 2020, Senior Resident in Neurosurgery department at ESIC SSH,  sanathnagar, Hyderabad.
• Sep 2013 – Sep 2019, Post graduate M.Ch (Neurosurgery 6 years) at Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Porur, Chennai
• Apr 2006 – Mar 2012, M.B.B.S and Internship at Katuri Medical College and Hospital, Guntur, A.P

Areas of Expertise:

• Glioma surgeries- Awake mapping, fluorescin-guided surgeries
• Meningiomas
• Vestibular schwannoma
• Skull base surgeries- open and endoscopy
• Robotic guided surgeries.
• Microvascular Neurosurgery
• Craniovertebral junction surgery

Memberships:

• Neurological society of India.
• Neuroendoscopic society of India
• Skullbase society Of India.
• The World Association of Neurosurgeons

Awards and Presentations:

• Best paper- Meningiomatous masquerade – Fungal granuloma of Medial sphenoid wing at clinical society meet at SRIHER, May 2016 Chennai.
• Best poster for Pigmented neuroectodermal tumor of infancy involving superior saggital sinus and management at IndSPNCON February 2018 Hyderabad.
• Best paper- Ruptured ACOM aneurysm with poor grade of presentation and
  management at clinical society meet at SRIHER, October 2018 Chennai.
• Best paper on surgical nuances of Syndromic CVJ anamolies in 180 patients in Young
  Neurosurgeons Forum India 2021.
• Best paper on Middle cranial fossa to posterior cranial fossa approach with Kawase, an
  overaching surgical feat in SKULLBASECON 2022.
• Poster on Hypophysitis mimicking pituatary macroadenoma and management at
  IndSPNCON February 2018 Hyderabad.
• Paper on Microsugical management of spinal dural AV fistula at NEUROVASCON
  2018, SEPTEMBER 2018, Chennai.
• Poster on Microsugical management of spinaldural AV fistula at NSICON, December
  2018, Jaipur.
• Dr. Damodar Rout Neurosurgey medal for the best outgoing student October 2019.
•  Flash presentation on Melanotic schwannoma mimicking intratumoral bleed in a
  Cerebello pontine angle schwannoma at Skullbasecon 2019, October 2019, Coimbatore.
• Paper on clinical presentation, management and oot come of 42 cases of
  Cerebellopontine angle tumors in a tertiary care centre at NSICON joint meeting with
  International Meningioma society and Australoasian neurosurgery, 2019 Mumbai.
• Paper on clinical presentation, pure endoscopic management and outcomes of 54
  cases of pituitary macroadenoma, visual and hormonal outcomes at Neuro endoscopic
  society of India annual meeting, 2021 Hyderabad.
• Paper on Key hole endoscopic vestibular schwannoma excision – how we do it –
  International federation of Neuro endoscopy 2022
• Paper on Combined Dolenc and Kawase APPROACH FOR Interpedencular fossa
  lesion- Egyptian second annual skull base conference 2022.

Publications:

• Gabbita AC, Raju S. Management of Complex Hydrocephalus. Neurol India
  2021;69, Suppl S2:350-6
• Das KK, Gabbita AC, Balachandar D, Singh V, Bhaisora KS, Dwivedi V,
  Jaiswal AK, Kumar R, Mehrotra A. Anterior Interhemispheric Transfalcine
  Transcallosal Approach for Excision of Septal AVM. Neurol India [serial
  online] 2022 [cited 2023 Jan 23];70:1803-7.
• Maurya, Ved & Gabbita, Abhirama Chandra & Srivastava, Arun & Kumar,
  Raj. (2022). Chapter Ruptured meningocele (including impending rupture) –
  Management and Surgical technique
• Gabbita AC, Das KK, Keshri AK, Sahu V, Mehrotra A, Manogaran R,
  Bhaisora KS, Srivastava AK, Jaiswal AK, Kumar R. Translabyrinthine
  Approach for Resection of Vestibular Schwannoma: “Neurosurgeon’s Path
  Less Travelled”. Neurol India 2022;70:1813-8
•  Common man’s intraoperative ultrasound: Basic Sonosite™ probe doubling
  as real time neuronavigator. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inat.2020.100734
  .Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery.
•  Sardhara Jayesh ,Abhirama, Chandra Gabbita,Sanjay Behari
  – Chapter 25 Incidental Atlanto Axial Dislocation
•  Ram, Sudha & Vivek, V & Shekhar, Ravi & Gabbita, Abhirama & Ganesh,
  K. (2019). Giant Cervicodorsal Schwannoma. Journal of experimental
  therapeutics & oncology. 13. 155-158.
•  Chapter on ETV and Flexible Neuroendoscopy – publication in process.
•  Keyhole endoscopic surgery for solid lateral ventricular tumor- “rat out the tumor
  from its borrow”Awadesh.K.Jaiswal, Abhirama .C. gabbita et al
  Neurosurgical focus(2023)-operative video on intraventricular endoscopy.
• Temporal transchoroidal fissure approach for thalamic tumors- How we do it.
  Kamlesh singh Bhaisora, Abhirama Chandra Gabbita, Bhawan Nangarwal, Sanjay
  Behari- Acta neurochirugaire.
• Combined Dolenc and Kawase approach for interpedencular fossa lesions- the
  two approaches and three elements – Kuntal kanti Das, Abhirama Chandra
  Gabbita, Arun.k.Srivastava, Awadesh.K.Jaiswal- Neurology india